
Top Girls
Caryl Churchill · 1982
Marlene, a Thatcher-era career woman, hosts a dinner party with famous women from history and legend. Then Churchill pulls the rug out and shows what Marlene left behind. The first act is a dazzling theatrical conceit; the last act is a gutting family drama. Churchill asked whether female success under capitalism was anything more than women learning to behave like the worst men.
Drama · the Pro canon
The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.